Welcome to Laserocitors

The Laserocitor is an old school analog laser image synthesizer and projection system.

Using a variety of electronic circuits such as oscillators, modulators, multipliers, summers, and rotation matrices cobbled together and controlled by dozens of switches, knobs, joysticks and buttons, a laserist creates an endless series of abstract images that are projected onto a display screen using one or more lasers.

Think of it as a big real-time interactive Spirograph.

This page provides information about the technology incorporated in the Laserocitor.

The Laserocitor Simulator is a C#/WPF program that was originally developed to simulate image generation modules to evaluate their behavior before translating them to electronic circuitry. It provides a user interface consisting of joysticks, toggle switches, buttons, rotary contols and indicators just like the real device, to generate an image in real-time in a separate window. It was recently modified to use the image data points to generate audio samples that could be used to drive a pair of laser scanners. It is a work in progress.

The source code for this simulator is available for download via github: Laserocitor simulator